The courier is getting lots of linkage from us as of late, but they’re playing both sides of this issue pretty well. Is it racist to say that we should have foreign buyer restrictions or that absentee owners can kill a neighborhood? Mark Hasiuk says NO.

Christy “Families First” Clark, a committed globalist, won’t restrict foreign ownership in B.C. Mayor Gregor Robertson, who slobbered over Beijing during a 2010 “trade mission” to China, won’t reform the tax code to accommodate the new normal. Which means foreign real estate investors pay the same rate (4.2 per cent) as local homeowners, not the business rate (18 per cent) they should.